Lakeside’s 1st Annual Beans, Beers and Business Fair, held on Saturday,
October 12, was the venue for a surprise $700 donation by the SanteeLakeside Rotary Club to the recently established East County Equestrian
Foundation. “The Lakeside Rodeo grounds provided the perfect setting
for the Santee-Lakeside Rotary Club to show support for the planned
premier equestrian facility in Lakeside,” said club president, Jim Peasley.
“Strengthening communities is what we are all about. It is our hope that
through our donation and our activities that we are making our world a
better place and, for this particular purpose, for Lakeside to have the
means by which to support all that the equestrian lifestyle has to offer,”
he added.
The equestrian facility site is 13.88 acres located at the corner of Morena
Avenue and Willow Road in Lakeside. The Foundation has developed a
conceptual layout of the planned East County Equestrian Center. The
covered arena will be the showpiece of the entire facility and will draw
equestrians from all over Southern California. It is expected that this
facility, with three arenas will attract may groups including junior rodeo;
high school rodeo; gymkhana, roping, barrel racing, Western and English
horse shows, trail trials, picnickers and trail riders.

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The object of Rotary is to
encourage and foster the ideal
of service as a basis of worthy
enterprise and, in particular, to
encourage and foster:
FIRST: The development of
acquaintance as an opportunity
for service;
SECOND: High ethical
standards in business and
professions, the recognition of
the worthiness of all useful
occupations, and the dignifying
of each Rotarian’s occupation
as an opportunity to serve
society;
THIRD: The application of the
ideal of service in each
Rotarian’s personal, business,
and community life;
FORTH: The advancement of
internal understanding,
goodwill, and peace through a
world fellowship of business
and professional persons untied
in the ideal of service.

End Polio
Now

On the Polio Front
On World Polio Day, Rotary Spotlights the Fight to
End the Disease (a special report from Rotary International)
Emmy Awardwinning actress,
Archi Panjabi,
(right) joined
Canadian Rotarian
and event
moderator,
Jennifer Jones in
challenging
everyone to play a
part in the global
effort.

Rotary helped put polio eradication on center stage on the day best
known for rallying support to finish the job – World Polio Day, 24 October.
A special Livestream presentation – World Polio Day: Making History –
showcased the progress of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Cohosted by Rotary and the Northwestern University Center for Global
Health, the 60-minute program took place before a live audience at the
John Hughes Auditorium on Northwestern’s Chicago campus and
streamed online to viewers worldwide.
RI President Ron Burton kicked off the event by noting that Rotary began
immunizing millions of children against polio in the 1970s, first in the
Philippines and then in other high-risk countries.
“Polio rates in those countries plummeted,” Burton said. “As a result, in
1988, Rotary, the World Health Organization [WHO], UNICEF, and the US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came together to launch the
Global Polio Eradication Initiative. More recently, the initiative has
benefited from the tremendous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation . . . . It is so very important to finish the job.”
Dr. Robert Murphy, director of Northwestern’s Center for Global Health,
emphasized that polio eradication “is completely doable. . . . [It] will
result in preventing billions of cases of paralysis and death, saving billions
of dollars, assuring that no parent in the world will have to worry about
this terrible disease ever again.”
Dennis Ogbe, polio survivor, Paralympian, and ambassador for the United
Nations Foundation’s Shot@Life campaign to promote child immunization,
spoke compellingly about the challenges of living with the disease and the
opportunity to protect people from it for all generations to come.

Visit the Santee-Lakeside
Rotary Club at
http://www.santeelakeside
rotary.com

“I have learned not to look at anything as impossible, and that includes,
especially, the eradication of polio,” said Ogbe, who was born in Nigeria.
“We have come a long way since the start. So let us finish strong and End
Polio Now.”
Continued on Page 8

We give thanks with our friends beside us,
And no person beneath us,
With the bonds of Rotary between us,
And our worries behind us,
With our goals before us,
And no task beyond us,
With a shared thirst for making a difference,
And our hearts focused on the possibilities
We are ever grateful for the blessings we all enjoy,
And for the many blessings we deploy,
May we grow even stronger, love a little deeper and be
humble all the more,
We lift our glass to Rotary and all it stands for,
To each other; for each other, we are grateful evermore.

The Santee-Lakeside Rotary Club
meets every Thursday at noon at
Jimmyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant on Mission
Gorge Road in Santee.
Bonnie Bear -Survivors of Suicide Loss

Peter Griffith - Shelter Box - Providing Relief

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Declaration of Rotarians
in Businesses and
Professions

Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Message

As a Rotarian engaged in a
business or profession, I will:

Brief History of Halloween
1.

Exemplify the core value of
integrity in all behaviors and
activities.

2.

Use my vocational experience
and talents to serve Rotary.

3.

Conduct all of my personal,
business, and professional
affairs ethically, encouraging
and fostering high ethical
standards as an example to
others.

4.

Be fair in all dealings with
others and treat them with
the respect due to them as
fellow human beings.

5.

Promote recognition and
respect for all occupations
which are useful to society.

6.

Offer my vocational talents:
to provide opportunities for
young people, to work for the
relief of the special needs of
others, and to improve the
quality of life in my
community.

7.

8.

Honor the trust that Rotary
and fellow Rotarians provide
and not do anything that will
bring disfavor or reflect
adversely on Rotary or fellow
Rotarians.
Not seek from a fellow
Rotarian a privilege or
advantage not normally
accorded others in a business
or professional relationship.

This Close

The Presidents Message this month is on the
lighter not so serious side, the history of
Halloween, for I am of Scottish and Irish heritage
where much of Halloween originated. Halloween
is one of my favorite annual celebrations. A few
sources were researched for the information
herein and much of the text was obtained
therefrom.
but Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as
Samhain (pronounced "sah-win").
The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in
Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used by the ancient pagans to take
stock of supplies and prepare for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that
on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the
dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause
havoc such as sickness or damaged crops.
The festival would frequently involve bonfires. It is believed that the fires
attracted insects to the area which attracted bats to the area. These are
additional attributes of the history of Halloween.
As we all know, today Halloween is celebrated on the night of October 31.
The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows' Evening also known as
Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve.
Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, wearing of
costumes, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Masks
and costumes were worn in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits and
appease them.
Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North
America. On my fathersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; side of the family, several great grandfathers
ago, he immigrated into America in 1736 from Northern Ireland. Other
western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century.
Trick-or-treating, is an activity for children on Halloween in which they
proceed from house to house in costumes, asking for treats such as
confectionery with the question, "Trick or treat?" The "trick" part of "trick
or treat" is a threat to play a trick on the homeowner or his property if no
treat is given. Trick-or-treating is one of the main traditions of Halloween.
It has become socially expected that if one lives in a neighborhood with
children one should purchase treats in preparation for trick-or-treaters.
Continued on page 6

POLIO NEAR EXTINCTION

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Why Join Rotary

President’s Message
Continued

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Rotary creates the perfect venue to
give back to your community and
to the world at large.

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Rotary provides unlimited exposure
to new topics and ideas; it provides
a meaningful way to be a leader.

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Seerrvviiccee
Rotary’s arm encircles the globe.
It is the largest service
organization in the world and
provides countless opportunities to
bridge continents and end divides.

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Every Rotary Club in the world, no
matter how big or small, has one
thing in common: friendship. And
it’s from this base of friendship
that we serve our community.

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Rotary has the potential to be a
way of life; a legacy to leave our
children and our grandchildren.

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A great tool Rotary has is its
educational programs. It also can
give you exposure to many
different areas and help you find
what your interests really are.

The history of Halloween has evolved. The activity is popular in the
United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and due to
increased American cultural influence in recent years, imported through
exposure to US television and other media, trick-or-treating has started
to occur among children in many parts of Europe, and Saudi Arabia.
In Ohio, Iowa, and Massachusetts, the night designated for Trick-ortreating is often referred to as Beggars Night.
Part of the history of Halloween is Halloween costumes. The practice of
dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays
goes back to the Middle Ages. Trick-or-treating resembles the late
medieval practice of "souling," when poor folk would go door to door on
Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the
dead on All Souls Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and
Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found
as far south as Italy.
There is no evidence that souling was ever practiced in America, and
trick-or-treating may have developed in America independent of any
Irish or British antecedent. There is little primary Halloween history
documentation of masking or costuming on Halloween in Ireland, the UK,
or America before 1900. The earliest known reference to ritual begging
on Halloween in English speaking North America occurs in 1911.
Another isolated reference appears in 1915, with a third reference in
Chicago in 1920.
Ruth Edna Kelley, in her 1919 history of the holiday, The Book of
Hallowe'en, makes no mention of such a custom in the chapter
"Hallowe'en in America." It does not seem to have become a widespread
practice until the 1930s, with the earliest known uses in print of the term
"trick or treat" appearing in 1934. Thus, although a quarter million
Scots-Irish immigrated to America between 1717 and 1770, the Irish
Potato Famine brought almost a million immigrants in 1845-1849, and
British and Irish immigration to America peaked in the 1880s, ritualized
begging on Halloween was virtually unknown in America until
generations later.
Early national attention to trick-or-treating was given in October 1947
issues of the children's magazines Jack and Jill and Children's Activities,
and by Halloween episodes of the network radio programs The Jack
Benny Show and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in 1948. The
custom had become firmly established in popular culture by 1952, when
Walt Disney portrayed it in the cartoon Trick or Treat, Ozzie and Harriet
were besieged by trick-or-treaters on an episode of their television show,
and UNICEF first conducted a national campaign for children to raise
funds for the charity while trick-or-treating.
Make the most of your short life on this earth with your family and
friends!

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We are a Grassroots
Organization
Rotary is a GRASSROOTS
organization. We carry out our
most meaningful service work
through our Rotary Clubs. Each
club elects its own officers and
enjoys considerable autonomy
within the framework of Rotary’s
Constitution and Bylaws. Rotary
districts (groups of clubs)
support these efforts and are
led by district governors.
Rotary clubs belong to the
global association Rotary
International (RI), led by the RI
president and RI board of
directors.
We direct our service in six
AREAS OF FOCUS: Peace and
conflict resolution; disease
prevention and treatment;
water and sanitation; maternal
and child health; basic literacy;
and economic and community
development.

Rotary Fighting Hunger
The timing of the Santee-Lakeside Rotary Club’s purchase of equipment
to expand the capacity of the Santee Food Bank couldn’t have come at
more opportune time. With the recent announcement that the Federal
stimulus boost for food stamps is being reduced starting November 1, it
is likely more families will be turning to food banks to make up the
shortfall.
Recently, the Santee-Lakeside Rotary Club was awarded a matching
grant in the amount of $2,000 from Rotary District 5340. Combining
those funds along with a $2,000 budgeted contribution by the SanteeLakeside Rotary Club, the Santee Food Bank was able to purchase a
large-capacity, commercial-grade refrigerator and three chest freezers
to help with preserving perishable food for distribution. With this
additional storage capacity, the Santee Food Bank will be able to serve
more families. On October 30, Rotarians visited the food bank to see
how their contribution is making a difference. It was a very rewarding
experience for Rotarians to see just how much more capacity the food
bank now has. Food Bank volunteer, Marty Smothers share that without
the addition of the new refrigerator/freezers, the donated food items
shown below couldn’t have been made available to food bank recipients.
On October 16, World Food Hunger Day, Rotary reaffirmed its
commitment to fight hunger.
For the Santee community, this
affirmation was demonstrated by the Santee-Lakeside’s Rotary Club’s
generous donation to the Santee food Bank. Rotarians, Augie Caires,
Vic Bermudes, Bill Pommering and Sandy Pugliese had one shared
thought - This is what Rotary is about - Service Above Self and making a
difference in our community!

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Rotary Spotlights the Fight to End Polio
A special report from Rotary International…continued from page 2

Dr. Bruce Aylward, assistant director-general for Polio,
Emergencies,
and
Country
Collaboration
at
WHO,
emphasized that the global fight is winnable, noting that the
number of cases in the endemic countries –Afghanistan,
Nigeria, and Pakistan – is down 40 percent in 2013,
compared to the same period in 2012. He also said that the
type 2 wild poliovirus has been eradicated, and said
November will mark one year without a case of type 3 virus
anywhere in the world.
Aylward also pinpointed challenges to the global initiative,
including the outbreak in the Horn of Africa with 200 cases.
Because of the strong response to the outbreak, however,
the region “is again rapidly becoming polio free,” he said.
Moreover, the polio endgame strategic plan, if fully funded,
is equipped to stop such outbreaks.
“Today, all children everywhere can have a better future, not just against polio, but against every disease
. . . if we as a global society get behind the vision of Rotary 25 years ago to reach every child with
something as simple as polio vaccine.”
The World Polio Day event also featured a short video showing the tireless efforts by health workers and
Rotarians to immunize children in Pakistan. “We are very optimistic that the challenges will not be able to
deter us and soon Pakistan will become polio free,” said Pakistan PolioPlus Committee chair Aziz Memon in
narrating the video.
Event moderator and Canadian Rotary member Jennifer Jones encouraged people to donate to the End
Polio Now: Make History Today. fundraising campaign, which makes contributions work three times as
hard with matching funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She also invited everyone to join the
more than 50,000 people in 150 countries who have expressed their support for a polio-free world by
becoming part of the World’s Biggest Commercial.
Emmy Award-winning actress Archie Panjabi spoke passionately about why she is so committed to her
work as a Rotary ambassador for polio eradication.
“When I was a child 10 years old, I went to India. As I walked to school, I would see children younger than
me with no [use of their] limbs, begging for money,” Panjabi said. “It broke my heart.”
Inspired as an adult to learn more about polio, she was “amazed by the amount of work that Rotary has
done,” in helping India be free of the disease since 2011, and joined a team of Rotary volunteers to
immunize children there last year.
“I will do whatever I can to support Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative . . . .
And if you do whatever you can, then together we can eradicate polio forever.”
Jones challenged the audience and online viewers everywhere to share their voice for polio eradication with

friends and followers on social networks and encourage them to do the same. “And write or email your
government officials to urge them to commit the resources we need to finish the job,” she said.
“We need you – and we want you to help us make history!”

Watch the special World Polio Day: Making History Livestream event:
http://new.livestream.com/rotaryinternational/worldpolioday